[…] Derniers Jours repeats many of the old translations, with occasional improvement, completes the process of translation ( for example, adding the fourth verse of “Come, Come Ye Saints”), and adds newer hymns, mostly from […]
“Oh Mother, Father will look so pretty for his wedding!” In these words this book begins and one feels instantly the poignant picture of the woman, Melissa, pressing her husband’s suit, a job she […]
[…] University and the University of Utah respectively, are examining visual images of the Mormons in an ef fort to understand the emotional overtones of the anti-Mormon crusade of the nineteenth century. The present article […]
[…] some measure of that fame which eluded him in his life. Ironically, he is remembered today solely for his alleged influence on the creation of the Book of Mormon, a curious fate for one […]
[…] with the area may wonder why such a flat place should be called a hill. Ah! You forget, this was the hill Ramah before the great destruction. “And then the whole face of the […]
[…] the message of Jesus Christ.” It is beautifully crafted in setting and tone, specifically a Mormon story for its realistic, sensitive telling of a missionary’s experience. Three of the stories are about death. In […]
Brigham Young University Studies A Voice For the Community of LDS Scholars People are always asking me how I like working at BYU Studies. I say: It’s not as good as playing softball behind […]
[…] told me once that when he has an impossible problem in his story, he sits and gloats for two days. Problems do not impede the story; rather, it is in their resolution that the […]
[…] Lee as a non-Mormon could court the Church freely. In an enduring career as mayor of Price for 12 years, governor of Utah for 8 years and mayor of Salt Lake City for 12 […]
[…] one thus feels are the best guide to ultimate religious truth. Pietists, Mead argued, cared much more for the heart than the head. Like John Wesley, it was more important to them that one’s […]